Katie Tupper has today released her debut album titled ‘Greyhound’ via Arts & Crafts. Greyhound unfolds like a long overnight ride where thoughts drift between streetlights and memory. Katie Tupper doesn’t rush to impress; she settles in, letting mood and melody do the heavy lifting. Her voice carries a worn warmth, soulful without being showy, intimate without collapsing inward. The album feels lived-in, as though each song has already survived a few seasons before finding its way to tape.
There’s a constant sense of motion here. Emotional, not geographic. These songs circle ideas of pursuit, hesitation, and the quiet exhaustion that comes from wanting something just out of reach. Tupper writes with restraint, trusting implication more than confession, which gives the record a reflective pull rather than a dramatic one. You don’t listen so much as you lean into it, picking up fragments of yourself along the way.
Sonically, ‘Greyhound’ favors feel over flash. Guitars hum instead of shout, rhythms sway rather than snap, and the production leaves enough air for the songs to breathe. Soul, folk, and indie textures blur together naturally, never announcing their influences outright. The grooves are patient, the arrangements uncluttered, allowing emotion to arrive on its own terms.
What makes ‘Greyhound’ resonate is its honesty without spectacle. It doesn’t posture or overreach; it simply exists, confident in its emotional weight. This is an album for late hours and open windows, for moments when you’re not searching for answers but recognition. Katie Tupper doesn’t chase the listener; she lets them come to her, and that quiet assurance is what lingers longest.
About Katie Tupper & ‘Greyhound’
‘Greyhound’ is about the instinct to chase–fleeting desires, guaranteed mistakes, the feeling of home, love in all its shapes and forms. It’s already knowing the ending but letting it unfold anyway. Often receiving comparisons to Olivia Dean and Charlotte Day Wilson, Tupper’s smoky alto voice wraps together soul, indie and alternative R&B with just a touch of folky twang. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Greyhound will bring the prairie roots of Tupper’s past to meet the blended and expanded worldview of her present — Stream.
Tupper contextualizes her debut body of work in saying, “Greyhounds that race on tracks are given these parameters and rabbit decoys to chase that are unreachable. If the front/fastest dog gets close to the decoy it just speeds up to make them run faster. The dogs think they are chasing something reachable but by design it will always be slightly ahead of them. It made me think about my relationships and how I act in the world. I am often both the Greyhound and the decoy — chasing something unreachable and being the thing that cannot be caught.”
It’s this duality – the fast and slow, the hard and soft, deep and delicate–that shapes the journey of Greyhound. This record is a homecoming, a return to her roots with years of new experience. It embraces the expanse of the endless sky and the light of the golden fields with an undercurrent of the sidewalks and skylines she’s spent years calling home.
Album standout track “Disappear” arrives today with an official live video (watch above). Simply her voice and a piano, the live video shows the elegant force within Tupper. On the album version, Jordan Rakei and Rachel Bobbitt lent their vocal talents to the slow-burning, soft ballad. Tupper shared, “I wrote this song about a relationship I was in that was progressing way faster than I felt comfortable. I didn’t speak up for myself because I was worried I would hurt this person’s feelings and as a result I could feel myself quietly shrinking over the course of it.”
‘Greyhound’ was produced with her touring partners and frequent collaborators Justice Der (Rachel Bobbitt, Dylan Sinclair) and Felix Fox (BADBADNOTGOOD). Regarding working with them, Tupper says, “Everything they created was so exciting and interesting to me that the whole album sound appeared in front of us within our first few sessions. They were my inspiration to push my sound and to explore a corner of R&B that blends soul and heavy drum and bass with delicate guitars and strings.”
Reflecting on the album as a whole, she said, “This batch of songwriting discusses difficult things but from a lens of maturity. I want listeners to feel like they’re not alone when challenging things come up. I want there to be a sense of calm and an opportunity to slow down while listening. When people read my lyrics and take away a message I want it to be one that is nuanced and that is empathetic. I think often pop music can be very polarized and harmful. I want my music to encourage people to take care of themselves and those around them by understanding that as people, we are always the greyhound and the decoy.”
All before releasing a debut record, its singles amassed over 4.5 million streams and over 40 million views across social platforms. Tupper has previously received a JUNO Award nomination for Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year. Additionally, Spotify’s RADAR Canada program has named Tupper their artist of the month and Apple Music highlighted her in their UP NEXT Artist Canada program.
Kicking off in May, Tupper will embark on a headline world tour. Making stops across the US, Canada and Europe, Greyhound will take on a new form for audiences across the globe. Tickets will officially go on-sale Friday, January 23 at 10 am local time.
2026 Tour Dates
- May 2 – Washington DC – Songbyrd
- May 3 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
- May 5 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair
- May 7 – Toronto, ON – Mod Club
- May 8 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz
- May 9 – Ottawa, ON – Club Saw
- May 13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
- May 16 – London, UK – Village Underground
- May 17 – Antwerp, BE – De Roma
- May 18 – Paris, FR – La Bellevilloise
- May 19 – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg
LINKS:
https://katietuppermusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/katietupper/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1Z7OCpN-1WGIzmkFVYMyw
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4uReB9HwMdEgwDXredJoVW
https://www.facebook.com/katietuppermusic